New WIP list and general writing blather

[rallamajoop]

Obviously I didn't attempt NaNo this year or you would've all heard about it. But since one thing or another has kept me from writing or posting hardly any fic since I finished the Ghost Stories draft in late July, I did declare November Local Get On With It Already Month, and turned out the reasonably respectable total of about 20,000 words (most of which haven't been edited or posted yet). That's not counting over 15,000 words worth of posts since I got back from Japan about all that stuff I've been up to lately, which doesn't strictly count but does chew into one's writing time in a significant sort of way. So I'm going to call that a decent sort of success.

While I'm talking about writing, I thought I'd post a new WIP list - partly so I can use it for my own checklist, but also for anyone who might be interested in what's in the works (or who wants to put in a vote for where my priorities should be out of all those different projects). No proper extracts this time because I am feeling lazy though convincing me to add them in probably would not be all that hard.

Also while I'm talking about writing, cheloya and lunargeography, I know neither of you are on LJ much lately, but if you are reading this, are you still up for betaing duties if the story in question is ready some time soon? ^^;

xxxHOLiC/Tsubasa fic
...so, would anyone be particularly surprised if I admitted that for all my talk about getting The Telling of One Billion Ghost Stories into shape for non-draft tagged posting, all I've done on it yet amounts to a page or two on a couple of those short stories and a bit of fiddling with the beginning? >.> Look, I did rather want a break from it and it's been a busy few months, alright?

But that's enough of that, I am finishing that monster even if it only means going through the checklist and running a spellcheck. I am declaring December Local Novel Editing Month. And I can race the manga to see which of us finishes first.


The World Ends With You fic
After that epic Japan trip with the cosplaying of the game in its actual setting (photo post is coming soon, honest!) this should not be much of a surprise. Three of these in progress totaling about 7000 words, all finished to first draft stage but in need of some fairly serious editing before they're fit to be seen (but if anyone wants to volunteer for beta reading duties, now would not be a bad time!) They're all post-game and loosely connected and so listed in the order in which they'd happen. None of them have titles yet, which is only business as usual for most of my WIPs.

Fic #1 (~2000 words)
So, four kids just came back from the dead - how exactly does that work anyway?

Fic #2 (~3000 words)
Vaguely Shiki/Eri oriented fic, in which Shiki does not actually appear.

Fic #3 (~2000 words, though currently full of gaps)
Even more vaguely Neku/Joshua fic in which Joshua does not appear.

I appear to be developing a bit of an odd approach to shipping in this fandom.


Guilty Gear fic
This is still the big section, so I'll split it down by category (and also to save me having to specify the same pairing over and over again *cough*)

Sol/Ky
Probably to be titled something like 'Visitor Etiquette' (~4000 words, NC-17. No, really.)
Status: Finished, currently with my beta reader. ^_^ yes, I have actually completed smut. stop looking at me like that. >.>
It starts with Sol waking up in Ky's bed. You can guess where this is going.

More smut (~4000 words, NC-17, probably even more so)
Status: First draft done, still needs some serious editing.
Relevant tags: war-era, angry sex, topping!Ky, (ogodwhat am I getting myself into)

Guilty Gear 1 fic (Eventual multi-parter, will need at least an R rating)
Status: Currently writing scene three, loooong way to go yet.
"So, it's kind of like I'm trying to write a novelisation of the first game - or the gap where the story of the first game should have been. Only with more sex."

Overture-based smut (~3000 words, NC-17)
Status: First draft done, still needs some serious editing.
Anyone remember back when I made that post to the solxky about all those possible ways to 'fix' Overture's plot WTF moment? Anyone remember the suggestions that no-one bothered to comment on or encourage me to write? Well, the one that leapt on me and wouldn't let go until I'd written it. Was one of those ones. Then it abandoned me again mid-year and the fic's been pretty much in the same state ever since. God knows I still want to have it finished though, if only because there's material in there I'm quite attached to and I haven't left any fic unfinished in the last two years and that's not a record I want to break now. Being back from that trip to Japan though, I think I'm feeling a bit more enthused about having another crack at it now though. Don't even get me into the question of whether anyone's even going to want to read it.

The one that will be EPIC (loooooong. do not ask me how long, i haf no idea. Expect it will be at least R)
There was this conversation I had with aphelion_orion via chat. It went like this, and do not let her convince you otherwise:
Me: Wanna hear about this fic idea I've been toying with for fun, despite how it would obsly be so long and convoluted that I wouldn't ever actually do anything with it?
Her: Sure!
[insert details here]
Her: Wow, that sounds like a great idea! You should totally write that up!
Me: It's okay in theory, but I wouldn't know how to plot it out and the whole concept is kind of wish-fullfillment-gratuitous, and I just finished a novel-length fic and I don't really want to start another one... *ditherditherdither*
Her: Excuses excuses! *ahem* You-want-to-write-it. *jedi hand wave*
Me: I-want-to-write-it-- goddamnit! ><
Status: I do not have a plan, I do not have even more than a couple of plot points outlined in my head yet, but the prologue is written, and if you compare that to the above statement of how miserable I am about the thought of not finishing what I started, that probably already means I am doomed.

The vampire AU fic (If I have any karma worth a damn, I will be able to keep it relatively short. Possibly R, but I wouldn't count on it staying that tame.)
Status: Uh. There was this email conversation? Something like a rough mental outline?
This one is a lot like the above all over again, except that blame falls on velithya instead.

(...look, I just want to make it clear that it's not so much that I've suddenly been hit with the massive desire to write lots of porn, it's just that all these ideas kept showing up, being started, then being abandonned while I went off to write something easier. Only now it's hit the stage where there's basically nothing else but these ones left on the WIP pile anymore. Or maybe I've just suddenly grown a backbone.)

Other
Side Red/Black AU fic (Probably a couple of thousand words, PG, will be dark)
Status: Couple of pages written in a couple of notebooks so far, maybe halfway through?
Spawned from this thread, there is probably little more that needs to be said about it. (Except maybe, "Yeah, drama CD based fic that isn't about Sol and Ky! Wonders never cease!)

Assassins ficlets (short, PG)
Status: Basically done, just have not gotten around to posting for assorted reasons. >.>
One Zato/Millia, one Zato/Venom, both hardly more than drabble length. The only real problem with these two is that they were inspired by those drama CDs I never got around to translating properly, and so remembering them is not as much fun as it could be... >.>


...yep, that should about keep me going for a while. x_x

Comments

[velithya]

NO I'M PRETTY SURE I SAID "MODEL"!

*facepalm* I'll check at work tomorrow then, I guess, I should have it archived there!

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